Improvement in camp-stools



S. N. STEWART Camp-Stool.

Nb. 213,259. Patented Mar. 11,1879.

N.FE\'ERS, PHDmuTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. c.

nrrnn ATENT FFICE IMPROVEMENT IN CAM P-STOOLS.

Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 213,259, dated March 11, 1879; application filed September 17, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known thatI, SYLvEsTnRN. STEWART, of the city and county of Philadelphia and Statev of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Camp-Stools, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l is a perspective showing the campstool closed. Fig. 2 is a perspective showing the camp-stool open.

Each pair of legs B B is formed by sawing a cylindrical piece of wood into two equal parts, in the form of a longitudinal spiral kerf, leavin g the spiral 1) above their center, in order that the inner faces of the upper parts of B B may be at right angles with the inner faces of their lower parts. B B are either dovetailed or halved or rounded into the cross-pieces (l O, and there fastened with screws. Seat A, of

canvas, is tacked to O O in the ordinary way. Brace E is a metal or wooden tube, placed loosely upon a wire, whose ends replace the two ordinary rivets of a camp-stool; or this brace may be of one solid piece ofmetal, whose diminished ends would replace the two ordinaryrivets of a camp-stool. 'lhis center-brace is used in place of the two ordinary lower cross-braces of a camp-stool, as the ordinary cross-braces would prevent the stool from fold- SYLVESTER N. STEWART.

Witnesses:

Row, M. HOOPER,

N. W. STEWART. 

